# No, No, No! (November rantings) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385 "2017-11-01T14:48:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/201 "2017-11-29T23:24:35Z")
Broke a tooth on Monday evening while biting down on a [fun dip stick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Dip#/media/File:Fun-Dip-in-Action.jpg). On the positive side, it didn’t hurt, I had my night guard to wear so I didn’t slash up my cheek, and my dentist wasn’t out of town. This morning he had me come in before hours, gave me encouraging words about how benign the large break was, and took about 20 minutes to fix the damage 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/202 "2017-11-30T02:26:48Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Cat peed on down duvet. Take the cat to the vet. Buy a bottle of Nature’s Miracle, a can of tennis balls and then stuff the duvet into a large front loading washing machine. Wash on gentle, but use the warmest heat that you can with the fabric. Add a couple of cups of Nature’s Miracle to the wash cycle and stop the machine to soak for up to an hour if you can. Start the machine again and when its done, put the duvet in the dryer with the tennis balls. With down, its best to use a medium heat. Ignore the noise, but do open the dryer a few times during the cycle to kinda shake the duvet out and make sure its drying evenly. That should remove the scent of cat pee not only for you, but for kitty’s very sensitive nose as well. Hopefully, kitty only has a bladder infection or something else easily treated. Environmental issues are a totally different thing, but please remember that kitty didn’t do it because kitty is a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/203 "2017-11-30T10:12:27Z")
When I moved into this place, it had a key meter for the electric- what that means is you have to pre-pay for electricity, rather than getting a bill. You go to a shop, hand over cash and this little thing that looks a bit like a USB drive, and stick that in the meter to put it on you account. It’s used for people with bad credit and places that change over tenants often. Really annoying things, especially if you live somewhere you don’t have 24hr shops to top up, and they’re even more expensive than standard rates. I have OK credit, so I asked if I could change it. No problem. Took a few months for the electric company to send someone to change over, but they did last month. Then I get my first bill. It’s utterly obscene, over £400 for a one bedroom flat for one month. About 10 times what I’d expect. I’ve looked at the bill, and there’s a charge on there of £350 from the period before they changed the meter, from when I had to pay for it all in advance. The hell?! I’ve already paid for then! And it was nothing like that much! I’m trying to get it sorted out now, but that’s just messed up. Apparently they’re sending me a new ‘correct’ bill. I wait with interest. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/204 "2017-11-30T10:17:46Z")
dafuq? My last electric bill was $25. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/205 "2017-11-30T13:10:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My older daughter and babies came for Thanksgiving, they stayed 2 nights. Grand time had by all. She called yesterday, she had to take the baby ( 1yr) to the pediatrician. He has 5ths disease. You know the slapped cheek thing. Red face and fever., etc. Guess who woke up with a red face today? And no I am not embarrassed or sunburned! I called my doctor. They said NOOOO! don’t come in, emphatically. They called in a steriod. It is viral, nothing else to do. I feel kinda ache-y, but not much else. I cannot believe as many years as I have been around babies and kids I’ve never been exposed. So…now I am waiting on the lil’wrekker to call and tell me she has it. Of course it’s finals week and she’s preparing for choir performances. That danged old karma thing will get you everytime. Your immunity may have faded away if you haven’t been exposed to it to remind your system it is bad. Just wait for Shingles.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/206 "2017-11-30T18:30:05Z")
Damn cold has me blowing my nose so much that I’m now getting nose bleeds. Yeah, that’s fun. On the plus side I can’t really smell that the dog got skunked two weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/207 "2017-11-30T18:41:30Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Okay, since you are waiting with bated breath… > > Hubby and I consulted, and after much discussion (his first reaction was we should call his sister and tell her she’s nuts) we agreed we would still go, and _pretend_ we were sticking to just what she’d asked for. Except we’d bring a couple kinds of rolls and a pasta ‘salad’ that was really a hot casserole of cheese tortellini with a tomato/mushroom/vodka sauce. And the one pie would become an apple crisp and a pecan pie. > > And it was a good thing I upped the quantities because several of her new vegan dishes were, well, really bad. At least by non-vegan eaters standards. > > The cauliflower was even MORE horrible than I’d imagined. I was expecting it was going to be cooked down into some homogeneous mush. Instead it had a weird texture. Sort of grainy but the grains were soft blobby bits in a thin soupy/watery background rather than hard or crunchy grains. Sort of like tapioca blobs in really thin pudding, maybe? But what really put the cherry on it was that apparently cauliflowers have a sort of skeleton structure made out of more densely fibrous stuff underneath the outer softer layers (?) that didn’t seem to have broken down at all. So if you tried to dish up a spoonful you might snag on some of this…connective tissue(?) and it would hang dripping down from the spoon and… Honestly, it looked revolting. Like some partially decomposed alien creature. > > My SIL kept saying things like “I know I followed the recipe” and “This isn’t how the picture looked.” I felt bad for her, but truthfully, I don’t know what it tasted like. None of it made it into my mouth. > > But there were okay green beans and squash and mashed potatoes, and some decent wine, and nobody argued about politics or anything so it could have been worse. > > Sunday I will be roasting a turkey. Yeah, I’d just have eaten all your stuff. I like raw cauliflower, but hate cooked cauliflower. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/208 "2017-12-01T03:59:31Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Your immunity may have faded away if you haven’t been exposed to it to remind your system it is bad. Just wait for Shingles.:eek: Ikr, I had shingles 3 years ago, the most horrible experience of my WHOLE life! And 2 of my babies were over 10 lbs., labor was no comparison to shingles. It just went on forever. But this 5th disease isn’t too bad. My daughters baby is cranky and feverish still. She’s about to pull her hair out, from lack of sleep. She was crying to me on the phone. I hate when my kids have to have these probs, but this too will pass. We all have to go through it with kids. And she says she wants one more baby!! We will see. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385/209 "2017-12-01T15:00:32Z")
December’s thread [this way](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843477). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-no-no-november-rantings/800385.md?page=10)